[Bailey, John, 2001, The White Divers of Broome, Pan Macmillan, Sydney, page 12]
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Robison & Norman, general merchants of Dampier Crescent int he town's centre, advertised the best and finest from around the world: Heidsieck's Monopole Champagne, Kupper's pilsener, Albschloss lager and Munro's whiskies...
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Fresh vegetables were shipped in from Melbourne by steamer, tropical fruits from Singapore, oranges from Italy,..
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All sorts of commercial gentlemen found it worth their while to catch the steamer up from Perth: piano tuners and dentists, real estate agents clutching folders of desirable properties in Cottesloe and South Melbourne, furniture salesmen from Sandovers,...
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There were four bakeries, three dairies, a sailmaker, three tailors, two billiard saloons, a blacksmith and an undertaker, as well as a newspaper, two hospitals, a gaol, two lawyers, a resident magistrate and a bishop. All this for a town that had only existed officially since 1883, with a permanent population of about a thousand, and with another two and a half thousand indentured workers from almost every region of the Far East working on the luggers.
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